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This TV documentary on the History Channel has many flaws, the greatest of which is allowing overarching, borderline ridiculous right-wing condemnations of hippie culture to remain unchallenged, but still it fascinates as a glimpse at the drug-fueled, youth-driven counterculture of the late 1960s. Too much time, unfortunately, is wasted on sensationalist, irrelevant side-stories and not enough is spent on the substantive contributions of the hippie aesthetic to the culture at large. There are also a few glaring historical accuracies; for example, one could easily conclude from the film that the Vietnam War ended after 1969 -- which would certainly come as a surprise to the soldiers who served there from 1970-1973. But at least the film, at its end, correctly, if only briefly, touches upon some of the many lasting contributions of the hippie ethos to the culture at large; these include the consciousness movement, the environmental movement, and the computer/technological revolution which led to the democratization of information by the Internet.


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QUOTE(pylick @ Sep 15 2009, 03:45 PM) *


Agreed. They also don't explain the reason for the rise of heroin addiction. Heroin was smuggled in from Vietnam during our extended war over there... a lot like it is imported from Afghanistan today. How long have we been over there now? If the government didn't fuck everything up with their political wars, history would have been a lot different, as would this country today. peace
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